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5 Steps For A Perfect Competition Deck

Competitions are an integral part of B-School life. Not only do they arrive with some amazing opportunities and prizes up for grabs but refine a lot of your presentation skills! You also get to identify the individuals in the process of building a perfect team. Who wouldn’t like their presentation deck for the competition to be the perfect blend of analysis, presentation and creative, feasible solutions? Here is a 5 Step-approach that will help you ace your deck in the upcoming competitions.

Kabir Jain13 Aug 2018

B. Tech To B-School – A Reflection

It is June and I am getting the most awaited chance of winning my first wish from the tooth fairy, on the 10th of the month, after my tenth birth anniversary on 23rd May; while many of my cousins have either lost half their milk teeth or have a full-grown permanent set, this is just a beginning for me and a voice inside chirps, “Better late than never!” Days passed and so did June, every year.

Subham Burnwal13 Aug 2018

The Right Fit - How To Choose A B-School

After all the hustle, clearing the competitive examinations, going through the rigorous GD-PI process, we all undergo a mental fight when it comes to finally choosing a b-school. Selecting a b-school is quite a major decision as it decides not only the next two years of your life but this decision has a great impact on your professional as well personal life. The more you talk to people to take suggestions, the more you get confused. Surely every person is different and so are their preferences and judgements while making such a decision but there are some points which one must keep in mind before coming to a conclusion.

AYUSHI HIMTHANI13 Aug 2018

Working Out An MBA

It’s Monday, nope, it’s chest day, that is as long as last night’s assignment submission has not exhausted you. Dragging your half worked out calf muscles to the gym, carrying your hostel room keys in one hand and the once heavily used gym gloves in the other, you walk into an iron paradise.

ARJUN RAJ13 Aug 2018

What MBA Dreams Are Made Of - From PGP-2 To PPO

MBA. A degree that speaks of hopes and dreams for many people. Each wanting to carving out their own identity into this microcosm. Some try, some work hard, some win and some are able to realize the dreams they had. Few are those, privileged are those. And behind the façade of achievement, is an average Joe, who like you and me, worked in silence, slogged and made it big.

DHARINI BASWAL13 Aug 2018

I Found Friends. Sort Of. - Akhil Sasikumar Nair, XLRI Jamshedpur

I had the perfect boring life going on for me. Working in a corporate firm in Gurgaon! Listening to “exciting” client stories! Looking out of the window and seeing 20 storeyed glass & concrete structures staring back at you! You know the ‘clichéd’ good life. And I really didn’t mind any of it. And yet here I was on my first day at XLRI.

Akhil Sasikumar Nair13 Aug 2018

Why You Need To Forget About Your Percentile In CAT

So you have decided that MBA is for you but it might seem as though getting into b-school is too difficult a road to traverse. The unrelenting assault of DI and LR in CAT, verbal dizziness brought upon by a 'serious case' of paragraph jumble and the unfortunate dilution of the quantitative section to set the deck against engineers: it might seem as though you don't have what it takes to get yourself an MBA from premier b-school. This is exactly what you need to forget about getting that coveted call from your dream b-school. What you need to remember and understand before you venture into this phase of your life are your strength and weakness and by that, I don't mean whether your quantitative ability is weak or your inability to crack LR. These are the symptoms of your problem, not the problem. I want you to look for something more fundamental about yourself that you want to work on to get to your dream b-school.

Swapnil Tyagi13 Aug 2018

On Being A GEM, 3-Year Journey To XLRI, And Yoda

‘Do… or do not. There is no try.’ These are Yoda’s words of wisdom ingrained in the brain of every MBA aspirant. And I was no exception! But Yoda smacked me across the face with failure time and again. For me, the 3-year journey to XLRI was more an experience than an achievement.

Raghunathan S13 Aug 2018